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A cold treachery - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewIntegral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the nom de pl... -
A Place of My Own_ The Architec - Michael Pollan
SUMMARY: "A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shap... -
A More Perfect Heaven - Dava Sobel
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to p... -
A Hedonist in the Cellar_ Adven - Jay McInerney
Amazon.com ReviewThose who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney's A Hedonist in the Cellar, a collection of his essays originally .... -
A Gift of Dragons - Anne McCaffrey
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, ... -
A Fraction of the Whole_ A Nove - Steve Toltz
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgi... -
A Day and a Night and a Day_ A - Glen Duncan
Review“Grim, violent and paradoxically elegant.” (Kirkus Reviews )“Glen Duncan is one of the best English-language writers working today—smart and musical, funny and seriou... -
A Cook's Tour_ In Search of the - Anthony Bourdain
Amazon.com ReviewA Cook's Tour is the written record of Anthony Bourdain's travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-ye.... -
A Collection of Essays - George Orwell
Amazon.com ReviewImagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would resu... -
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking; Grover Gardner
A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. Th...